The Manchester Union-Leader's publisher, John McQuaid, goes apeshit over Ron Paul. My favorite line:
A Wall Street Journal columnist notes that Paul is “a leading spokesman for, and recycler of, the long and familiar litany of charges that point to the United States as a leading agent of evil and injustice, the militarist victimizer of millions who want only to live in peace.”
Well, that settles it. The quote, from Dorothy Rabinowitz, is in a piece that did not cite anything Paul has actually said to back up her remarkable slur. But it is surely revealing that she does not see Paul as that different from Obama:
The world may not be ready for another American president traversing half the globe to apologize for the misdeeds of the nation he had just been elected to lead. Still, it would be hard to find any public figure in America whose views more closely echo those of President Obama on that tour.
Yep: Rabinowitz believes that the president who surged in Afghanistan, launched a global drone war, killed Osama bin Laden and much of al Qaeda's leadership, dethroned Qaddafi, shored up alliances in India, Indonesia, Korea and Japan, and finally ended the Iraq war … is an America-hater just like Ron Paul.
But take a look at the comments under the editorial. In 2008, the campaign to make Paul merely fringe succeeded. This time? Well, we'll see soon enough.
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